Acoustic signaling assemblages: Structuring processes and implications for community assembly

• Grant number: 15/25316-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date until: July 01, 2016
• End date until: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Tadeu de Siqueira Barros
• Grantee: Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/15772-0 - The acoustic dimension of biological communities: Evolutionary and Ecological structuring processes, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Acoustic signals mediate interactions among signalers and the destined receivers. While immersed in multisource background noise, deleterious effects for species fitness can emerge by signal interference and confusion. Because acoustic signals are involved in competition and reproduction success, character displacement can emerge based on the role of background noise components as selective pressures. In this sense, species can partition the acoustic space in the spectral and temporal domains to avoid signal overlap. Likewise, environmental structure can operate as a filter for signal propagation. Contrary to the viewpoint of acoustic space as a competing resource, signals can mediate interactions among species in communication networks, especially among ecologically similar species. Here, we propose to use anuran assemblages of the Pantanal wetlands to investigate three possible processes that generate acoustic differences within assemblages: partitioning of the acoustic space, acoustic adaptation to the environment, and species interactions in communication networks. We envisage three scenarios for the acoustic structure and taxonomic relatedness of the signaling assemblage: i) partitioning of the acoustic space leads to high acoustic variability and low species relatedness; ii) acoustic adaptation to the environment leads to low acoustic variability and no structure on relatedness; iii) species interaction in communication networks leads to low acoustic variability and high species relatedness. To assess whether acoustic differences are important on species assembling or not, we will investigate the role of acoustic differences and habitat structure on determining species turnover under a deterministic framework. An investigation on the assemblage scale could reveal whether the observed acoustic space is an outcome of species competition or not, and the extent on which species assembly is conditioned by acoustic differences.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; FREIRE SILVA, THIAGO SANNA; RIBEIRO, JR., JOSE WAGNER; LLUSIA, DIEGO. Terrestrial Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Review and Perspectives. Bioscience, v. 69, n. 1, p. 15-25, JAN 2019. (15/25316-6, 17/15772-0, 14/07113-8)

BONNEFOND, ANAIS; COURTOIS, ELODIE A.; SUEUR, JEROME; SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI M.; LLUSIA, DIEGO. Climatic breadth of calling behaviour in two widespread Neotropical frogs: Insights from humidity extremes. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, v. 26, n. 10, AUG 2020. (15/25316-6, 17/15772-0, 13/50421-2)

SUGAI, LARISSA S. M.; SILVA, THIAGO S. F.; LLUSIA, DIEGO; SIQUEIRA, TADEU. Drivers of assemblage-wide calling activity in tropical anurans and the role of temporal resolution. Journal of Animal Ecology, v. 90, n. 3, DEC 2020. (17/15772-0, 15/25316-6, 19/04033-7)

MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; DESJONQUERES, CAMILLE; FREIRE SILVA, THIAGO SANNA; LLUSIA, DIEGO. A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring. REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 6, n. 3, p. 16-pg., 2019-11-13. (15/25316-6)

MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; DESJONQUERES, CAMILLE; FREIRE SILVA, THIAGO SANNA; LLUSIA, DIEGO. A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring. REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, NOV 2019. (15/25316-6)

REGOLIN, ANDRE LUIS; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; MARTELLO, FELIPE; MELO, GERUZA LEAL; SPONCHIADO, JONAS; CAMPANHA, LUIS F. DE CASTRO; SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI MOREIRA; SILVA, THIAGO SANNA FREIRE; CACERES, NILTON CARLOS. Spatial heterogeneity and habitat configuration overcome habitat composition influences on alpha and beta mammal diversity. Biotropica, v. 52, n. 5, MAY 2020. (15/25316-6, 17/15772-0, 13/50421-2)

MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; LLUSIA, DIEGO. Bioacoustic time capsules: Using acoustic monitoring to document biodiversity. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, v. 99, p. 149-152, APR 2019. (15/25316-6, 17/15772-0)

MARTINS, CLARISSA ARAUJO; SILVEIRA, MAURICIO; SAITO, VICTOR S.; COSTA-PEREIRA, RAUL; MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; PAYS, OLIVIER; ROQUE, FABIO DE OLIVEIRA. Phylogenetic structure of communities between temperate and tropical regions: Exploring patterns through literature datasets. ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, v. 91, p. 30-34, AUG 2018. (15/25316-6, 14/24532-4, 13/20540-0, 16/14611-0, 14/20924-5)

STEFANES, MAURICIO; OCHOA-QUINTERO, JOSE MANUEL; ROQUE, FABIO DE OLIVEIRA; MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; TAMBOSI, LEANDRO REVERBERI; LOURIVAL, REINALDO; LAURANCE, SUSAN. Incorporating resilience and cost in ecological restoration strategies at landscape scale. Ecology and Society, v. 21, n. 4, 2016. (15/25316-6)

RIBEIRO, JR., JOSE WAGNER; MOREIRA SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI; CAMPOS-CERQUEIRA, MARCONI. Passive acoustic monitoring as a complementary strategy to assess biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazonia. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, v. 26, n. 12, p. 2999-3002, NOV 2017. (15/25316-6, 14/07113-8)

SUGAI, LARISSA SAYURI MOREIRA; LLUSIA, DIEGO; SIQUEIRA, TADEU; SILVA, THIAGO S. F.. Revisiting the drivers of acoustic similarities in tropical anuran assemblages. ECOLOGY, v. 102, n. 7, JUN 2021. (19/04033-7, 17/15772-0, 15/25316-6, 13/50421-2)